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What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Eternity
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
Sophie Swetchine
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
Sophie Swetchine
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Sophie Swetchine
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Sophie Swetchine
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
Sophie Swetchine
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
Sophie Swetchine
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie Swetchine
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
Sophie Swetchine
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
Sophie Swetchine
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Sophie Swetchine
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
